{"id":363,"date":"2006-03-16T12:27:03","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=363"},"modified":"2006-03-23T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T17:32:22","slug":"three-year-wmap-data-now-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"Three-year WMAP Data Now Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the second and third year of the WMAP satellite experiment has just been released a few minutes ago.  There a <a href=\"http:\/\/map.gsfc.nasa.gov\/m_mm.html\">press release and other general information page<\/a>.  The scientific paper explaining what this new data tells us about cosmology is <a href=\"http:\/\/lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov\/product\/map\/dr2\/pub_papers\/threeyear\/parameters\/wmap_3yr_param.pdf\">Three-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Implications for Cosmology<\/a>.  This is a good time to admit that I&#8217;m no cosmologist, and thus not the person to get information from about the significance of these results.  However, I expect some of the earliest informed discussion of them should take place on various blogs, and I&#8217;ll be linking to those as I see them.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>:  Comments from <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2006\/03\/16\/wmap-results-cosmology-makes-sense\/\">Sean Carroll<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/catdynamics.blogspot.com\/\">Steinn Sigurosson<\/a>.  Discussion at <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmocoffee.info\/viewtopic.php?t=482\">CosmoCoffee<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bautforum.com\/showthread.php?t=39381\">Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum<\/a>.  Also a <a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/wmap-three-year-data-released.html\">posting from Lubos<\/a>.  I&#8217;m no expert here, but Lubos&#8217;s comments seem to me to be nonsense (I find it hard to believe that in the three-year data set they&#8217;re resolving structure 100 times smaller than in the first year, and I think he&#8217;s just completely wrong to say that this data rules out ekpyrotic or cyclic models).<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/christinedantas.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/wmap-3-year-data-release.html\">Christine Dantas<\/a> also has more about this.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Amazingly, Lubos still is maintaining that the 3 year results have 100 times better angular resolution than the 1 year results.  This kind of fanatical inability to ever admit that one was wrong about something goes a long way towards explaining the current state of string theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data from the second and third year of the WMAP satellite experiment has just been released a few minutes ago. 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